Tim: >> It's generally a good idea to make use of rechargable batteries - run >> the device they're meant for, using the batteries, from time to time. >> Quite apart from the technical reasons, of keeping the batteries >> alive, there's not much point owning them (and paying for them) if you >> don't make use of them. Aaron Konstam: > Au contraire , there is lots o reasons. One is when I am running the > machine at home for 3 hours with a battery that runs it for 2 hrs and 14 > minutes. On DELL D810 it is designed to run that way so why not? I'm not quite sure what you're disagreeing with. One of my points was that I don't see much sense in paying for a battery if you're not going to use it as a battery, they're not cheap. That doesn't mean you have to use it all the time, but using some times would do it good. Batteries generally last the best when made use of. Ones that sit there unused, or always being charged, usually suffer. Ones that sit in equipment are often slightly discharging through the equipment, and being trickled charged, constantly. Consider yourself lucky if yours is fine in those conditions. Chargers are *sometimes* are fine to leave connected, as *some* are designed *not* to keep on charging a battery needlessly. Others are not so intelligently designed. (Whether that be the box you plug into the wall, or circuitry in the laptop between battery and the power brick.) Some laptops are not really good to run continuously, they may have not so brilliant cooling. They may use a laptop drive that's been designed to last being turned on and off a lot, but not so much for continuous running. The opposite of most desktop drives. There's a multitude of factors, and it's hard to say what's best for some, it's even harder to attempt to say what's best for all. -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr 2.6.22.1-33.fc7 i686 i386 Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
